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Leaving LinkedIn
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Loading ...Ok so I don’t know who the was the genious that introduces the captcha on the LinkedIn website, but it makes the damn website completely useless. Every time you login you need to enter an unreadable, completely useless captcha. See the screenshot below for what I mean.
Screenshot of Captcha
Now I know I’m not an expert on the usability side of things, but why do you need to enter a captcha code after correctly entering both your username and the password. This sersiously makes me wonder if it would not be better to erase my LinkedIn account. Unfortunately that would require me to login, now if I were only able to read the damn image.
New fancy toy, the HTC Desire
So I got my new HTC Desire in today after renewing my phone service. I renewed with this free phone even after being warned that it could take up to 5 weeks for the delivery. Guess I’m one of the lucky receiving it within a week. Anyhow I will write something about the new phone in a few days time, but I thought it might be fun to go over my phone history so far 
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MSAccess and a really weird behaviour with distinct
Recently I started working with MS Access databases, I know not the best choice. I ran into a really weird problem with the database, which I didn’t expect.
I have a relativly simple select query which contains a distinct. Something like “select distinct id, content from table”. Nothing fancy so you’d expect the content of the table excluding all duplicates.
But this is also where the weirdness begins with MS Access. I was using this type of query to select data for my search engine. But some data wasn’t included for some reason.
After a lot of debugging my queries and code it turned out that MS Access ODBC was only returning the first 255 characters of a MEMO field. So I thought the driver was to blame, until I ran the same query in MS Access itself. As it turns out Access was the one truncating MEMO fields to VARCHAR(255) fields when using a DISTINCT in a query.
Glow 2009 – Eindhoven
GLOW – International Forum of Light in Art and Architecture
Eindhoven 2009 I 4th Edition I Being Public
Curated by Bettina Pelz and Tom Groll
Due to the dedication of CityDynamiek Eindhoven, from November, 6th to 15th, 2009, the city center of Eindhoven turns again into a forum of interventions, installations, performances and events based on the phenomena of artificial light.
Mysterious problems with my VPS
I’ve heard a lot of people always say that you can’t crash/hang or break linux easily. Well then I guess I’m one of the lucky bastards that gets it done. Since a few days the VPS system I’m operating keeps hanging itself up.
Now off course it is not the fault of Linux , but with my very lacking skill. I recently did an apt-get upgrade command on the VPS. To my suprise it started updating with Lenny packages, whilst I could have sworn I have Etch installed. Mystery on its own, but worse yet the server now keeps hanging and breaking.
I figured it was a memory issue at first cause some weird service was installed that was eating it alive. So I de-installed that and it ran fine for a few days. But allas, after 3 days of running the VPS hangs itself up again. When I say hangs-up I mean that I cannot connect using SSH, the mailserver goes down. MySQL and Apache keep running though, as does postfix. So I’m still guessing it is memory, but I have no idea why my configuration is no longer working after running an apt-get upgrade command. Something is really wrong 
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